Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> I was more interested in the "any SCSI backup unit will work"
> factor than the specifics, but... Sure! Love a good questionnaire!
>
> > Amount to be backed up
>
> 4 gig or thereabouts, at least, i'd be happy with a 4 gig drive.
You want a one tape back job, so that means a DDS2 tape if you want a
one tape DAT backup, with 120m tapes. (Can anyone confirm this? - I'm
just vague on the max capacity of DDS2).
If it is going to get bigger than 4Gb, buy DDS3 as 4Gb is about the
biggest you could stuff on a DDS2. My DDS3 cost about $2.5K about two
years ago. Not sure what they are now. It is a Seagate. Can not
remember the model number at this hour.
I believe there is a similar gotcha in the Exabyte, but that is a
closed shop system. Nope, don't know which run under Linux.
.................
>
> Ideally, I'd like it to be a push-this-button, end of day thing for
> skilled retailers (read: "the computer is scarier than godzilla").
> Thus, unattended, every night.
One tape.
>
> > budget
>
> I have a couple of drives, one Seagate DAT 8, which (if it works
> under Linux), will be top stuff. The other is an old, uninspected
> one: "Dad's office seconds". (I'll finally have backup at home!)
Don't know this seagate.
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